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Anderson Cooper Gets NOTHING from Vanderbilt’s Fortune

CNN host, Anderson Cooper has revealed that when his mother dies he will NOT be inheriting any money from his mother Gloria Vanderbilt’s $200 million fortune.

Cooper’s mother is in her 90s and is the great-great-great-granddaughter of the railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt, told him straight out that when she passes he will get NOTHING! CelebNMusic247.com has learned that Anderson says he doesn’t need the money.

In a recent interview with Howard Stern, Cooper revealed:

“My mom’s made clear to me that there’s no trust fund. There’s none of that.”

“I don’t believe in inheriting money … I think it’s an initiative sucker. I think it’s a curse.”

“Who’s inherited a lot of money that has gone on to do things in their own life? From the time I was growing up, if I felt that there was some pot of gold waiting for me, I don’t know that I would’ve been so motivated.”

“I’m doing fine on my own, I don’t need any.”

Unlike most celebrity kids who have trust funds and wait till 21 or 27 to inherit their wealth, Anderson Cooper made a success of himself and for years NEVER let anyone know who his mother was. The CNN host, 47, pulls in around $11 million a year at CNN and lives in a converted firehouse in Greenwich Village and also has a Hamptons estate in Quogue.

PageSix.com also reports that he signed a contract extension to keep him at CNN through the 2016 presidential election last November.

As for his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, she inherited most of her wealth from her father, Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, an heir to the Vanderbilt railroad fortune. Her father died when she was just over a year old and left her a trust fund that was worth $5 million in 1925. Cooper’s father, Wyatt Emory Cooper, was Gloria’s fourth husband and died in 1978 from a heart attack when Anderson young.

And the Silver Fox said he prefers to focus on his father’s life rather than his wealthy ancestors.

Anderson told Stern:

“I’ve never paid attention to it, honestly, like my dad grew up really poor in Mississippi … that’s a healthier thing to pay attention to than like some statue of a great-great-great-grandfather who has no connection to my life.”

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